A Texas woman who requested permission to obtain an emergency abortion left her home state to seek the procedure elsewhere as the state supreme court considers her case.

Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup announced Monday that Kate Cox, a 31-year-old woman who is 20 weeks pregnant, fled Texas to “get the time-sensitive abortion care needed to protect her health and future fertility.” Her departure comes after the Texas supreme court on Friday evening paused her previously granted request to receive an emergency abortion that her doctors and lawyer argued would save her life.

Cox filed a lawsuit against the Lone Star State last week after learning her fetus has full trisomy 18, a rare genetic condition that delays a fetus’s physical development. At least 95 percent of fetuses don’t survive full term due to complications from the diagnosis, with pregnancies either ending in miscarriage or stillbirth, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The lawsuit states that Cox’s doctors told her going through with the pregnancy would affect her health and fertility and that she has had to seek medical treatment at the emergency room several times during the pregnancy. Cox obtained permission from a judge to get the abortion in Texas before the state supreme court temporarily blocked her request upon Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s appeal of the lower court’s decision.

“Kate desperately wanted to be able to get care where she lives and recover at home surrounded by family,” Northup said. “While Kate had the ability to leave the state, most people do not, and a situation like this could be a death sentence.”

No indication was made exactly where Cox is getting the abortion outside of Texas.